''Cainnear'' is a female
Irish given name. Potentially deriving from ''caoin'' and ''der'', meaning "gentle daughter", it is the name of one of the legendary daughters of
Queen Medb of Connacht and several
Irish saints
This is a list of the saints of Ireland, which attempts to give an overview of saints from Ireland or venerated in Ireland. The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland, when Celti ...
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Variants of the name include ''Canair'',
''Cainder'',
and ''Cainner'',
and at least two early Christian saints have borne these variants.
Bearers of variants of the name
* Cainer (or Cainder), a daughter of
Queen Medbh;
and the wife of Lugaid son of Curoi. Also called ''Red Cainnear'', she was killed with a spear, saving her mother.
* Cainnear Caomh, a tragic heroine from the book The Story of Caolan''.'
* St.
Cainnear of Inis Cathaig, who is also referred to as 'St. Canair of Bantry Bay',
is associated in some sources with
Senán mac Geirrcinn
Senán mac Geircinn (''fl.'' 6th century) is a prominent Munster saint in Irish tradition, founder of Inis Cathaig (Scattery Island, Iniscathy) and patron of the Corco Baiscinn and the Uà Fhidgeinte.Johnston, "Munster, saints of (act. ''c' ...
of
Scattery Island
Inis Cathaigh or Scattery Island is an island in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland, off the coast of Kilrush, County Clare. The island is home to a lighthouse, a ruined monastery associated with Saint Senan, an Irish round tower and the remains of a ...
.
* St. Cainner of Rinn-hAllaidh, an early Irish virgin saint. Her feast day is 5 November.
* St.
Cainnear of Cluain Claraid, an Irish virgin and an abbess who was healed of muteness by
St. Brendan
Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 - c.577), is one of the early Celtic Christianity, Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is also referred to as Brendan the Navigator, Brendan the Voyager, Brendan the Anchorite, Br ...
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* Cainnear of Clonsilla (Cainer of Cluain-da-Saileach), the mother of St. Mochua of Clondalkin and six other male saints.
* St. Cinnera of Kirkinner, a Scottish virgin, associated with
Kirkinner
Kirkinner ( gd, Cille Chainneir, IPA: ˆkʰʲiʎəˈxaɲɪɾʲ is a village in the Machars, in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. About southwest of Wigtown, it is bounded on the east by the bay of Wigtown, ...
, who was a recluse and possibly also a martyr.
Her feast day is 29 October.
* St. Cainnere of Cill Chainre (
Kilcandra, County Wicklow).
See also
*
Cainnech (Irish name)
*
List of Irish-language given names
This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language (''Gaeilge'') given names and Anglicized or Latinized forms, with English equivalents. Some English-language names derive directly from the Irish: Kathleen = CaitlÃn, Shaun = Seán. S ...
References
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Irish given names